Nature published an op-ed by former director general, Joachim von Braun, Kaosar Afsana, Louise O. Fresco, and Mohamed Hassan on how the United Nations should harness science and technology to improve nutrition and safeguard the environment. In September, the United Nations secretary-general, António Guterres, will convene a Food Systems Summit. This is only the sixth UN summit on food since 1943 and the first with heads of states in the UN General Assembly. A group of leading scientists, known as the Scientific Group, has been tasked with ensuring that the science underpinning the 2021 summit is robust, broad, and independent. At the first summit in 1974, IFPRI was founded. Republished in Technology Times (Pakistan).
